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First Indian woman operative of ISIS deported from Dubai; she was online recruiter of terror group
September 11, 2015
In
what has alarmed Indian intelligence and security agencies, the first
Indian woman operative of Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has
been deported from Dubai.
Top government sources said that the
woman operative of ISIS identified as Afsha Jabeen, who also has an
alias Nicole Joseph, is an online recruiter for the Islamic State.
Jabeen was deported from Dubai with the help of intelligence agencies
on Thursday night along with her husband - identified as Devender Batra
alias Mustafa and three daughters.
The agencies managed to
track her after one Salman Moinuddin, caught from Hyderabad Airport in
January this year while he was trying to go to Dubai and then to Syria
to join and fight for ISIS.
Sources say that Salman was
motivated by Jabeen to join the outfit, which has captured most of the
areas of Iraq and Syria since it came into prominence last year.
Jabeen is being intensively questioned by intelligence agencies to know
more about the recruits she has motivated from different parts of India
and her association with the outfit.
She was presently
residing in Dubai but as soon as Indian agencies managed to find
evidence against her and enough details about her involved, the UAE
officials were contacted and her deportation was initiated.
The
recent association with UAE, after Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited
the country last month, has led to deportation of people of Indian
origin trying to join the Islamic State. Two persons, who had joined
ISIS, were deported last month to Kerala.
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